What one person may perceive as joking, another finds offensive and degrading. ... (Hodgson 5) The schools definition of sexual harassment broadens to include everything from having clothing torn off and being forced to perform sexual acts, to unwanted sexual jokes, gestures, or looks. ... Examples include students' attempts to pull down gym shorts or flip up skirts, nasty, personalized graffiti on bathroom walls; sexualized jokes that mock women's bodies; bras snapped and body parts groped; and outright physical assault and attempted rape. (21) Researchers Gene Abel, Judith Becke...

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Introduction Many children watch television everyday, and recent studies indicate that children watch between three to four hours of television a day. Even more astounding is the fact that children spend about 38 hours a week either watching television, playing video games, listening to music, and/or working on the computer (Kaiser Family Foundation, 1996). This time spent is comparable to a full-time job. It is obvious that the media influences children. Today, a main focus of the media is sex. ...

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Often times the harassment is disguised by jokes or teasing, but it always feels threatening to those on the receiving end. ... Every employee must know the definition and that sexual harassment can be anything from jokes to physical grabbing. ...

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Kaiser Family Foundation found that current programs show an incredible amount of sex, while not enough time discussing disease prevention or the repercussions of having sex, such as pregnancy.20 The study also shows that out of approximately thirteen hundred programs, only nine percent reveals the consequences of sexual activity.21 Also, an important detail shows that sexual scenes were more prevalent on network programs (sixty-seven percent) than cable television (fifty-six percent).22 When the "sexual bombardment" of our children is involved, a study done by the American Academy of Pe...

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Make it fairer to those that are just joking around and harsher for those that cannot keep their hands to themselves. ... The fact that we cannot read the jokes from the sexual harassment can be frustrating. ...

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In this article, Columbus Meets Pocahontas in the American South, Theda Perdue, shows how Europeans viewed the Native women. Perdue also compares the way the Native women were treated by the European men. Perdue starts off by explaining both Columbus and John Smiths encounters with the Natives. ...

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Teen Pregnancy How to prevent teen pregnancy has been a question for many years now. Statistics have been running wild trying to keep up with the teenage generation. Many people have their opinions on the subject (teen pregnancy), because teens seem to be getting pregnant all so fast these days. ...

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Sexual assault can be a very traumatic event for the victim as well as the victim's family and friends. Sexual assault is a very serious crime. It is defined as any form of sexual assault without both parties' voluntary consent. Sexual assault is not just a non-consensual intercourse, it can be non-...

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We have seen the phrase "rape culture" plastered onto our television screens, noted in our newspapers, and exploited on our Facebook profiles. What comes to your mind when you see the phrase "rape culture"? Let's break it down. When a person thinks of culture they usually picture a group of people o...

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The speaker then continues to make jokes regarding the woman's virginity: Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust (25-30). ...

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Justin Apresa a sixteen year-old boy remembers how he first came to learn about sex and the treatment of the opposite sex. "It wasn't like my parents talked to me about sex and girls," Justin commented. He learned about it through his cousin who, at the time was merely seventeen years old. Justin...

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What is rape? Rape, regardless of who commits it, is a felony of sexual assault that leaves the victim injured and traumatized. Rape is a misleading term which describes a serious crime. Also is misunderstood and under reported. Rape is the common cause of dieases, physical and emotional...

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Hostile environment claims may involve physical or verbal sexual behavior such as touching, grabbing, pinching, rubbing, demeaning comments, embarrassing sexual jokes, obscene pictures and cartoons. ... Harassing comments, inappropriate gestures and jokes, abusive language, insensitive stereotyping in written or verbal communications of any sort have no place in the military and may be grounds for reprimand and/or discharge. ...

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Chasing Amy is a movie that uncovers the hardships we find within the confusion of love and sex in our lives. Sometimes the line between love and sex seems almost invisible, but the differences and complications of understanding that are quite clear in this movie. The issues presented in Chasing Amy...

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Television and Sexual Messages Fifteen year-old Laurie was rushed to the emergency room with acute pain in her lower abdomen. Doctors initially suspected appendicitis but during surgery they discovered something worse. Laurie suffered from pelvic inflammatory disease that was caused by either chlamydia or gonorrhea. The infection began in her cervix, then climbed through the uterus into her fallopian tubes and out to her ovaries. An abscess that formed on her right ovary had ruptured spilling the infection into her abdominal cavity. ...

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He went on to cite this is part of the reason he elected to retire early, putting a stop to his double life, as well as the shame he was feeling at the hands of teammates who made incessant gay jokes in his presence. ...

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Many situations and lifestyle choices make for different types of marriages. Marriage is a constantly evolving institution. In our lifetime, society has evolved from what used to be considered "traditional" marriage, into accepting that love can and does exist outside of heterosexual coupling. Marri...

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"So what will it be, Dan? Cheerios and Chaucer? Or an illegal party at your prep school pool with your high-society girlfriend and her nasty cohorts?" his friend Vanessa probes. Dan hollers to his father in the next room that he and Vanessa are heading out for the evening. ...

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